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Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
Whether by item or otherwise, temporary invincibility provides the user a brief moment where they are impervious to attack.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
Power Ups can be used to give the controlling character, or any other character, temporary or permanent upgrades.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
The ability to break a combo at either the auto-double or linker stage. Most commonly found in the Killer Instinct series. Also a famous internet meme.
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
Games that are controlled partially or entirely with a touch screen.
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